Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 458 Dark Energy Outburst
Lin Xian closed his eyes, fatigue washing over him like a tide. Compared to when he first set off from Jiangcheng and relied on the Infinite Train to escape the zombie crisis, he was now feeling completely dizzy.

From the floating giant corpse to the Heavenly Mushroom Tower, from the bizarre changes of humans to the invasion of darkness.

To this day, humanity still does not know what kind of enemy it is facing.

On the day of revelation, an endless horde of zombies invaded and mutated, the dark tide, the polar night, and bizarre entities gradually expanded into the Star Abyss. S-class consciousness and the mysterious writing on the solar panels of the South Heavenly Gate were all part of the story. Lin Xian originally thought that as the escape and war progressed, humanity would gradually understand everything in the darkness.

It's like discovering dark markers, cold dark particles, dark energy potential, mycelial brain-computer interfaces...

Just when humanity thinks it's about to unveil the fog of terror, the next night is still filled with despair.

What troubled Lin Xian this time was the dimensional entity black hole of the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes. After witnessing the dimensional line of time with his own eyes, Lin Xian felt that his worldview and motivation had been greatly impacted.

Because he realized that destruction is not an inevitable outcome; destruction itself is merely an event in a higher dimension. This idea may not be absolute and may still be open to debate, but it is still chilling.

If time were a physical entity, would the countdown timer you see represent that you are already on a fixed event path, and that all your current actions and efforts will ultimately lead to this result...?

Lin Xian dared not imagine, but just now, he had indeed changed the team's disastrous fate.

"Should we talk to Director Ding about the Silver Dragon 100,000 mistake and that countdown..."

Lin Xian thought about it for a moment, then dismissed the idea. He decided to get some sleep first, and perhaps he could try to contact Chu Yan and the Phoenix Society after dawn.

……

Glug, glug~
The muffled sound of water pressure made Lin Xian feel as if he were trapped in a jar of soup. The oxygen generator and air system filled the carriage with a fresh but metallic smell, making one think that the train was rushing across a vast grassland with a gentle breeze. But Lin Xian guessed that at this moment, the Infinite was still thousands of meters below the Pacific Ocean, wandering like a ghost.

Opening his eyes, Lin Xian saw only a dimly lit bedroom illuminated by the faint indicator lights of the onboard instruments. Lying flat on the bed, he heard no clanging of wheels or rails. The train's smooth ride felt like being on a cloud. If it weren't for the sound of water pressure deep underwater, Lin Xian would have had the illusion of waking up in the middle of the night in his own bedroom.

Quiet, cool, and comfortable—it seems quite pleasant as long as you don't think about the bottomless abyss below the carriage.

Drop drop, drop drop.

The watch beeped, and Lin Xian frowned immediately, raising his hand to look at the watch.

8:00
He slept for nearly 9 hours!
"I rely on..."

over slept!

Lin Xian immediately prepared to get up, but when he sat up, he found that there was someone lying on him. He pointed and the light came on, revealing that it was Shiori lying on him. The little girl seemed to be exhausted and was not wearing power armor. She was lying on Lin Xian's stomach with one finger pointing at Lin Xian's chest, maintaining the action of activating her superpower.

"This girl, could she have unleashed her superpowers all night?" Lin Xian's eyes flickered. He gently lifted Shiori's forehead and found that the girl was completely asleep, her cheeks slightly flushed, and strands of hair pressed into her face, creating lines of sleepiness.

Seeing this, Lin Xian sighed slightly: "No wonder he slept for so long."

Shiori's ability has a remarkable effect on healing mental energy. In the Star Abyss No. 5, she was able to help everyone purify and heal when facing the violent dark invasion. It is a very rare ability system. After being taken care of by her for a night, Lin Xian felt that not only was he no longer tired, but his whole body was also clear and refreshed. He even felt that his concentration had improved a lot.

"Thank you."

Lin Xian said something in a low voice, then got up and carried the little girl to a sofa chair next to him, and covered her with a blanket.

After finishing everything, he walked out of the door to head to the cockpit, but when he opened the bedroom door, he found that all the lights in the carriage were turned off, leaving only the dim corridor lights to illuminate the outline of the carriage and the corridor.

Lin Xian frowned, got up and went into the cockpit, and found that Chen Sixuan was also asleep, leaning against the driver's seat. Only Viola stood proudly in front of the cockpit with her hands behind her back, sticking to her post.

"Why is everyone asleep?" Lin Xian asked, his expression puzzled. "Also, did we leave the ocean currents? Why didn't you tell me?"

Rest assured, I have followed your plan exactly, and everything is currently running smoothly.

Viola turned to Lin Xian and said calmly, "Our navigation team entered the runoff diffusion area south of the Queens Islands at approximately 5 hours and 32 minutes. The average depth of this area is 3300 meters. After analysis and exploration, Ms. Chen Sixuan approved my proposal to maintain a low speed and quiet operation towards the Republic Islands. For safety reasons, I set the navigation team's cruising speed at 15 knots and maintain a depth of 1500 meters. This depth is sufficient to deploy the unmanned submersible in observation mode for protection."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xian asked, "And then we cruised towards the Republic Islands for 5 hours?"

Yes, after leaving the danger zone, the team members inside the vehicle began to rest. Perhaps due to the exhaustion from the escape from the island, most of the occupants were now in a deep sleep. I believe this is a good way to protect and evolve, so I adjusted all the lights in the vehicle to allow everyone to rest quietly until dawn.

"It's not that we expended too much energy, it's that the Hellish Black Chrysanthemum released too much pure dark energy!"

Lin Xian turned to look at the opaque green energy that almost filled the carriage, frowned slightly, and muttered, "So much, what's going on?"

He didn't understand why Hell's Black Chrysanthemum had absorbed so much dark energy when he hadn't killed any strange entities. Lin Xian walked towards the back of the car and found that the dark energy was becoming more and more concentrated. Immediately, a thought came to his mind.

Having absorbed too much dark energy, I wonder if there will be any side effects. So many people are fast asleep, which feels a bit off.

But just as Lin Xian walked back to carriage number 1, a light screen suddenly popped up in front of him.

[Converted to non-mechanical energy, gaining 1000 mechanical source points.]

"As expected, the Heterogeneous Rubik's Cube has transformed the mechanical source point back into mine..."

[Converted to non-mechanical energy, gaining 1000 mechanical source points.]

Take another step, and the light screen continues to pop up.

Lin Xian stopped in his tracks and discovered that the Mechanical Heart's light screen was now popping up one message after another, like delayed pop-up notifications, making it impossible for Lin Xian to move.

[Converted to non-mechanical energy, gaining 1000 mechanical source points.]

3000...

4000...

As the light screen kept popping up, Lin Xian watched helplessly as his Mechanical Heart experience level kept changing, and the light screen seemed to be recklessly popping up.

5000...

7000...

10000...

[Converted to non-mechanical energy, gaining 400 mechanical source points.]

Until the last mechanical source point popped up, Lin Xian was shocked to find that his mechanical heart level had soared from 22220 when he devoured the battle-damaged version of the Fearless class to 39800!

17580 points!
"What the hell? Has Hell Chrysanthemum taken the wrong medicine?" Lin was shocked and quickly walked towards the back of the carriage.

In carriage number 2, KIKI, having recovered, fell asleep in a seat in the information center. The monitor screen showed the situation outside each carriage. The little girl showed no signs of fatigue or pain from overuse; instead, she was sprawled out on the swivel chair, a lollipop stick dangling from her mouth.

Lin Xian saw this and went straight over to pull the stick out of KIKI's mouth. The candy on it had all melted. He picked KIKI up and put her on the bed. Sasha on the upper bunk was also fast asleep.

In carriage 3, the scattered laboratory had been tidied up. Lin Xian opened the rest room, where Ding Junyi was already sleeping with great ceremony. He quickly closed the door. In carriage 4, the separate rest room was for Ding Junyi's two assistants, Xiao Yuan and Miao Lu, who were also fast asleep.

In the rear carriage, the same was true for Brother Huo, Ryunosuke, and Mo Xiaotian. In the dining room of carriage 6, Luo Yang, Lü Chang, Qian Dele, and several others were sleeping on the sofa. Dozens of people in carriages 7 and 8 were also fast asleep.

Everyone on the bus was asleep!
Lin Xian felt increasingly uneasy. He quickly walked towards carriage number 10 at the back, while simultaneously contacting Beifeng 09 via communicator.
"Ryan, can you hear me?"

"Buzz... What's wrong, Lin?" Fortunately, Ryan's voice responded immediately.

"Everyone on the bus is asleep. Isn't that a bit strange?"

At this moment, in the command center of the Borei-09 nuclear submarine, Ryan stood in the center wearing headphones, surrounded by only a dozen or so submarine operators quietly waiting for orders. In the other compartments, a large number of people were fast asleep. He immediately spoke...
"Don't be nervous, Lin. Your car should have some forbidden items with similar properties to our Dark Energy Copper Ball, right? This is a side effect of absorbing too much Dark Energy, similar to oxygen intoxication. It won't be dangerous and will be quite beneficial to everyone."

Upon hearing Ryan's words, Lin stopped and began to open the door to Monica's room in carriage number 9.

"Won't absorbing so much at once cause harm to our bodies?"

Ryan responded, "As far as I know, if it's purified, then it's not a big problem. It's at least better than cold dark reagent, and you don't need to prepare vegetable juice or sun exposure."

He then sighed, "But I also think this is too much, but there's nothing we can do. We can't just open the windows and release all this energy, can we?"

"There's such a thing..."

Lin Xian was speechless for a moment, unsure whether the current situation was good or bad. He had converted nearly 2 mechanical source points through the Heterogeneous Cube, which was the largest burst of energy he had ever had since he acquired the Mechanical Heart. This showed how much dark energy the other team members had received, which explained why they were all sleeping so soundly.

"Ryan," Lin Xian asked, his gaze complicated, "we don't seem to have dealt with any strange entities, so how come we have so much dark energy capture?"

"It's not simple yet."

Ryan immediately responded, "That guy's hunting. Remember what I told you about our original plan?"

Lin Xian frowned upon hearing this: "You made a fortune?"

"We were using the towed sonar as we descended," Ryan said helplessly. "Actually, I didn't have high expectations, since escaping was the priority, but I didn't expect..."

"How much did you catch?" Lin Xian asked.

“4级血精98枚，3级血精……1295枚，2级若干。”

Lin Xian was stunned for a moment upon hearing this: "What did you say?!"

“Lin, don’t be surprised. You have to thank me for this. You can distribute these gains as you see fit.” Ryan said leisurely, “These are enough for all of you to carry out crystal lattice cultivation and evolution.”

"Good guy."

Lin Xian was shocked. He never expected that Ryan would use the towed sonar to gain so much benefit by accident. This guy's crazy idea of ​​reaping the benefits through Uniga 1 had actually succeeded.

More than a thousand level-three blood essences and nearly 100 level-four blood essences—if these were used to exchange for supplies, they would be enough to equip an Iron Guard Brigade!
"It should be dawn in about two hours, Lin. Thanks to you, we all escaped," Ryan said gratefully.

"Yes, two hours..."

Lin Xian looked at the countdown in his line of sight.

01:55:09
The countdown has less than two hours left.

Does this foreshadow what will happen after dawn?

Lin was filled with mixed emotions. On one hand, he was worried about the burden that the rampant energy would place on his team members, and on the other hand, he was uneasy about the approaching countdown.

Click~
At this moment, the automatic door in front of Lin Xian suddenly opened, and a voice came from inside.

"You've been standing outside for so long, won't you come in and sit down?"

Lin Xian was taken aback for a moment, then looked away. Finally, there was a second person awake on the Infinite.

Carriage No. 9 was a private carriage that Lin Xian gave to Monica. It was also Lin Xian's way of repaying Monica for giving him and Shinji Mochizuki the Monica ship for modification. This carriage was originally Carriage No. 1 in the Queen Monica ship. Lin Xian had made a complete system upgrade to it, but the layout inside did not change much.

The car features a separate bathtub, a modern hot water system, a refrigerated wine cabinet, and a separate dressing room. It is the only way to reach the rear Whale 03E heavy gas turbine locomotive and Gemini 11R. However, due to the presence of Viola and the maintenance robot, other people rarely go to the rear car, so this car is relatively independent for Monica.

As soon as he entered, a fragrant aroma wafted over him. Lin Xian looked up and saw that Monica was wearing a simple bodysuit, which looked similar to yoga clothes. She was sitting cross-legged on the ground, doing some kind of yoga pose with her eyes closed. She seemed to be stretching and converting dark energy at the same time. This kind of clothing even replaced the function of underwear. In the current environment, it is necessary to wear an inner garment with power armor at all times, so underwear is actually quite troublesome.

However, it is precisely because of this form-fitting garment that Monica's almost unnatural body curves are perfectly displayed. Just one glance is enough to ignite a man's primal desires like a volcano.

"I didn't mean to eavesdrop, it's just that when you're standing at the door talking, it's hard not to hear."

Monica finished lifting her leg, then slowly stood up, turned to the side, crossed her arms, and looked up at him.

"If you need personnel to experiment with lattice cultivation, I can assist you. I know you still have questions about this evolutionary path."

Lin Xian paused for a moment after hearing this, and then expressed his thoughts.

"It's not a question, it's a concern. I've spoken with Phoenix, and they've discovered some side effects in their trials."

"After going through so much, are side effects really a concern for us?" Monica replied.

Lin Xian smiled and said slowly, "They all said the same thing as you."

After saying that, he looked at Monica and said seriously, "This involves putting a strange thing inside your body. Aren't you afraid?"

To everyone's surprise, Monica smiled lightly upon hearing this, then her gaze swept over Lin Xian like waves before she turned and walked towards the wine cabinet, calmly uttering a statement that completely astonished Lin Xian.

"Many people want to put things into my body, so what does this matter?"

(End of this chapter)